Open-source Firmware Vulnerability Exposes Wireless Routers

[Rice_King]

A hacker has discovered a critical vulnerability in open-source firmware available for wireless routers made my Linksys and other manufacturers that allows attackers to remotely penetrate the device and take full control of it.

The remote root vulnerability affects the most recent version of DD-WRT... More

[stumonster]

just a note for tomato users - an anti-xss safeguard was instituted back in 1.14 so this issue is not a concern to tomato firmware users.

[dave_boo]

Ouch. Just one more reason to use F/OSS software. You can supress the pop-up message in MS IE, but AFAIK you can't in say Firefox or Opera. Running a no-script plugin works wonders also.

There's a bit of an end-user stupidity to this also. Leaving your web-ui on and not changing the subnet mask to a different string will allow you to be more easily exploited.

Also, did you see the turn around time on response to the issue?

As a side note, if someone did take control of my router, they'd be really bored with all the pr0n flowing through it (or perhaps not)......